Annotation:Night at the Fair (A)

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NIGHT AT THE FAIR, A (Oidce Ag An Aonac). AKA and see "Night of the Fair." Irish, Jig. Ireland, Sliabh Luachra region of the Cork-Kerry border. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Source Johnny O'Leary (Co. Kerry) pairs this jig with the slide "Bill the Weaver's," according to editor Moylan. O'Leary himself though the tune to be "about two hundred years old," and identified it as one of the five or six jigs unique to 'Bill the Weaver' (Bill Murphy, father of Denis Murphy, called 'the Weaver' because his parents were both weavers. It may be that there is a Munster provenance for the tune, however, a nearly identical version to O'Neill's was printed by William Bradbury Ryan in Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883), where the composition is attributed to "H. Carey." Composition credited to one H. Carey by Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883).

Francis O'Neill was Chief of Police in the city of Chicago during the still-famous Chicago World's Fair (1893).

Source for notated version: Bill the Weaver, via accordion player Johnny O'Leary (Sliabh Luachra, Kerry), recorded at Na Piobairi Uilleann, February, 1981 [Moylan].

Printed sources: Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; p. 69. Moylan (Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra), 1994; No. 28, pp. 17-18. O'Neill (Krassen), 1976; p. 23. O'Neill (Music of Ireland), 1903; No. 788, p. 147. O'Neill (Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems), 1907; No. 63, p. 27. Ryan's Mammoth Collection, 1883; p. 99.

Recorded sources:

See also listing at:
Alan Ng's Irishtune.info [1]



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